Queen Anne's County, located on Maryland's
Eastern Shore, extends from the Mason-Dixon Line and Delaware to the Chesapeake
on the west and is bordered on the north by Kent County, and on the south
by Talbot and Caroline counties. The county was created in 1706 from Dorchester,
Talbot, and Kent counties. It is named for Queen Anne (1665-1714), who
ruled Great Britain and Ireland from 1702 until 1714.

Like Kent County, Queen Anne's County
is mostly dairy country, with fields sown in feed crops, especially corn,
soybeans, and hay. Small amounts of barley, essential for dairy feed, are
also grown. In the autumn and winter, thousands of Canadian geese can be
seen feeding in the fields and along streams throughout the county.

Centreville, the county seat, is
a well kept, quiet town typical of the Eastern Shore. The courthouse was
completed in 1792 and the town was laid out in 1794. Fire has destroyed
most of the older houses, but the courthouse itself remains, one of only
two eighteenth-century courthouses left standing in Maryland.

Wright's Chance, Reed's Creek, and
Tucker House are but a few of the historic houses in the county. The county
is also the birthplace of Charles Willson Peale, who painted the portraits
of many revolutionary era personages, including George Washington, Benjamin
Franklin, and John Hanson.

Love Point
was the terminus of a ferry line from Baltimore. In 1940 the cost was two
dollars for the car and driver; additional passengers were fifty cents
each. This view of the steamer Westmoreland was taken in June 1909. MSA SC 1477-6385

Church
Hill takes its name from St. Luke's Protestant Episcopal Church, which
cost 140,000 pounds of tobacco to build in 1731. This view of Walnut Street
was made for a picture post card at the beginning of the century. MSA SC 1477-6463

Mary Semey
joined her father and their farm hands to inspect the livestock at their
barn in Price, c. 1910. MSA SC 1477-6206

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